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OccupySLU: Progress Through Memory

OccupySLU: Progress Through Memory

Savanah Seyer, Staff Writer October 17, 2019

This week, the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement hosted OccupySLU Week to commemorate the 2014 Occupy SLU Protests, which are best remembered for a week-long sit-in at the SLU clock tower.  In...

Pictured here is Peter Queen, the first child born to an enslaved couple in the Missouri Mission, circa 1905. (Photo Courtesy of the SHMR Project)

Confronting SLU’s History With Slavery

Conor Dorn, Associate News Editor October 4, 2019

In 2016, SLU joined the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province (UCS) in launching an initiative to confront a joint history of involvement in the enslavement of African Americans that dates back to...

SLU Nursing School Renamed

SLU Nursing School Renamed

Caroline Lipski, Staff Writer October 3, 2019

They say that the best presents in life come in small packages. However, the generous $4 million gift to the nursing school from Trudy Busch Valentine, an alumna of SLU’s nursing department, proves that...

Future of Chinese Program In Doubt

Future of Chinese Program In Doubt

Conor Dorn, Associate News Editor September 18, 2019

Last week, students and faculty members associated with SLU’s Chinese Program learned that after the 2019-2020 academic year, SLU’s Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures will no longer...

Photo Courtesy of Trenton Almgren-Davis.

Woman Charged in Hit-and-Run that Injured SLU Student

Riley Mack, News Editor September 12, 2019

Last week, a SLU student was badly injured in a hit-and-run on the intersection of Grand and Laclede. On Tuesday, the driver was identified as 21-year-old Aldina Sakanovic, per the St. Louis Police Department.    Stephanie...

Photo Courtesy of Emma Carmody.

SLU “Safety Bubble”: A Matter of Perception

Klaudia Wachnik, Contributor September 4, 2019

St. Louis is considered to be one of the most dangerous cities in America, according to USA Today. In light of a recent rise of crimes over the summer, especially against minors, students have begun to...

Photo Courtesy of Emma Carmody.

SLU’s Latest Budget Cuts Show that the First isn’t Always the Deepest

Tannock Blair, Associate News Editor May 2, 2019

At the beginning of April, all of SLU’s deans were issued budget cuts by the provost, Chet Gillis. The college of arts and sciences was issued the biggest number, that of $4.1 million. In addition to...

Sexual Assault Awareness Month Sweeps SLU’s Campus

Sexual Assault Awareness Month Sweeps SLU’s Campus

Savanah Seyer, Staff Writer April 10, 2019

The month of April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). During April, organizations hold programming and disperse information in order to raise awareness of the issue of sexual assault. Programming...

Photo Courtesy of Riley Tovornik

Atlas Week Keynote: John Quiñones

Meredyth Staunch, Editor-in-Chief April 3, 2019

Championed as the “face of doing the right thing” ABC news correspondent and current host of “What Would You Do?” John Quiñones knows what it is like to be on the wrong side of prejudicial remarks....

Photo courtesy of Michael Thomas/St. Louis Post Dispatch

A Bubbly Evening with Bublé

Madisyn Siebert, Associate Arts Editor March 26, 2019

While most of St. Louis was focused on cheering on the Saint Louis University’s men’s basketball team in March Madness, the packed Enterprise Center was gathered to spend the evening with Michael Bublé....

For the first time since 2014, SLU earned an automatic birth in the NCAA Tournament by winning the Atlantic 10 Conference Championship. The Bills won four games in four games to take home the crown.

“Why not us” The Billikens ride March magic all the way to a A-10 Championship

Carter Chapley, Staff Writer March 20, 2019

College basketball in March is a kind of magic. It’s the only sport that has consistent Cinderella stories where it seems that truly any team in the country has an opportunity to go on the perfect run...

Photo Courtesy of Riley Tovornik.

SLU’s First Ever UnDocuWeek a Success

Caroline Lipski, Staff Writer February 27, 2019

Hayley Hampton, an MLK scholar and sophomore studying health sciences, defines immigration as the “ability to leave one environment to go to another in hopes that there will be better opportunities.”   Elena...

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